# hatan
## Gothic
### Romanization

hatan
* Romanization of 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽

## Hungarian
### Etymology

hat +‎ -an (adverb-forming suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɒtɒn]
* Hyphenation: ha‧tan
* Rhymes: -ɒn

### Adverb

hatan (not comparable)
* the six of us/you/them
    Hatan vagyunk a csoportban. ― There are six of us in the group. (literally, “We are of six…”)
    Az osztályunkban hatan vannak vegetáriánusok. ― There are six [of the] vegetarians in our class.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haitan (“to command, name”).
Cognate with Old Frisian hēta, Old Saxon hētan, Old High German heizzan, Old Norse heita (Swedish heta), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek κίειν (kíein, “put in motion”), Latin ciēre (“rouse, make active”) and Albanian cys (“to spur, set in motion”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxɑː.tɑn/, [ˈhɑː.tɑn]

### Verb

hātan
* to call, name
* to order, command, give orders, bid
** c. 897, inscription on the Alfred Jewel
    Ælfrēd mec hēht ġewyrċan.Alfred ordered me to be made.
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
    Hāt cuman tō mē þone cristenan mann...Tell the Christian man to come to me,...
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
    ...and hēt hine warnian, ġif hē wolde libban, þæt hē nǣre on ðām mynstre nǣfre eft ġesewen......and gave orders to warn him, if he wished to live, that he should never be seen in the monastery again...
* to promise
* (passive voice) to be called
** c. 970, Exeter Riddle 16
    Friġe hwæt iċ hātteGuess what I am called
** c. 900, Nine Herbs Charm
    Una þū hāttest yldost wyrtaUna you are called the eldest of the herbs
    Þis is sēo wyrt ðe wergulu hātteThis is the herb which is called wergulu
** c. 890, King Alfred's Translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
    On ðǣm bōcum ðe hātton ApocalypsinIn the books called Apocalypse
** c. 900, The Old English Boethius
    Sum consul Boētius wæs hāten'A certain consul who was called Boethius
** c. 980', Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni
    Seo heofen & sǣ & eorðe sind ġehātene middanġeardThe sky and sea and ground are called the Earth

#### Usage notes

* Uniquely among Old English verbs, in sense 4 hātan retains forms of the Proto-Germanic synthetic passive, functioning like German heißen, with which it is cognate. These are attested in the present singular as hātte for the first and third person, hāttest for the second person, and in the present plural as hātton. For the past tense, the usual strategies for expressing the passive were used: iċ wæs ġehāten, etc. The usual analytic passive is also attested for the present tense, and in some cases appears to be preferred.
* For introducing one's self by name in the first person, expressions like mīn nama is ("my name is") are overwhelmingly preferred over expressions like iċ hātte or iċ eom ġehāten in prose texts. Using hātan in this sense mainly seems to have been confined to poetry, and to some self-referential uses for objects, e.g. the ᚻᚱᛁᚾᚷᛁᚳᚻᚪᛏᛏᚫ (hring ic hattæ, literally "I am called ring") inscription on the Wheatley Hill finger-ring. This suggests that using hātan when introducing one's self may have been an archaism by the literate Old English period. However, it was very commonly used for naming people in the third-person, and some rare first-person prose uses are attested as late as the Middle English period.

#### Derived terms

* āhātan (“to call, name”)
* behātan (“to promise”)
* forhātan (“to renounce”)
* ġehātan (“to promise”)
* onhātan (“to promise”)

#### Related terms

* andettan (“to confess, acknowledge”)
* behǣs (“a self behest, a self command”)
* behāt (“a promise, oath”)
* behātland (“the promised land”)
* forhātena (“an ill-named person, scoundrel”)
* ġehāt (“a promise, oath”)
* ġehātland (“the promised land”)
* hǣs (“a command, hest, or behest”)
* hāt (“a promise, oath”)
* hāte (“a bidding, calling, invitation”)
* nīedhǣs (“a command under compulsion”)
* wīnhāte (“a feast, party”)

#### Descendants

* Middle English: hoten, hoaten, haten
** English: hote, hight
** Scots: hate, hait

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hatan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.